I spent the last 2 days scraping Reddit to collect a total of 18167 unique domains of promoted startups and other websites. The data comes from SideProject and SaaS as they seem to be the most common places to self-promote.
It's not all exactly "startups", but about 95% of the links are SaaS apps, stores and landing pages for mobile apps. I've tried my best to filter out social media and other already popular websites, but there probably still are a few.
I've also checked every single website to see if it's still up, abandoned, rebranded, moved or doesn't respond at all. Here are the results:

Still operating	Abandoned	Redirects	Not found	Other errors
10080	5423	1495	441	728

Let's say that roughly about 50% of the redirects are rebrands and the others are expired domains/ad redirects. This sums up to:

Operating websites	Gave up
60%	40%

Even though it's said that "most startups fail", there's plenty that are still operating. Domains and servers aren't free so you could say that most of these are making at least enough to cover their operating costs.

Domains	Total	Still Operating	Abandoned
.com	9600	5458	4142
.io	1873	1061	812
.co	1027	491	536
.ai	514	389	125
.net	307	152	155
End with "ify"	99	55	44
Start with "go"	98	47	51
Start with "try"	55	19	36

The most popular .com domain alternatives are .io, .co and .ai!

Year	Total links	Total upvotes	Avg. upvotes per post
2018	956	7478	7.82
2019	2055	16720	8.14
2020	3017	30412	10.08
2021	2951	38054	12.90
2022	2307	18133	7.86
2023	5753	26614	4.63

Another interesting statistic is that these subreddits have grown quite a bit, yet less and less people actually upvote posts. The increased amount of blatant bot/ai generated content probably plays a big role here.
I also wrote about all the tech details, how I did it and included the whole spreadsheet with all domains and reddit posts in this blog post.
So yeah this is my little 2-day case study. Thoughts?

Account Starting Balance this Week: $4,085.15
Back with another week with the iron condors, lazy plays on earnings. It worked out well during the first week (catch the wrap up here). Let's see if we can repeat the adventure this week.

Lack of Earnings To Start the Week

We are nearing the end of the quarter earnings sessions. There are a few names left, including the big guns Nvidia, however that won't be until next week. This week we have a lot of consumer driven companies.

Gamestop Rally

Did anyone notice the subtle moves Gamestop was making last week? It started around Wednesday and quietly crept into the close of the week. I had heard about it but to be honest, I don't really pay much attention to meme stocks lately so I didn't really think anything of it.
Then we get the return of u/DeepFuckingValue to Twitter on Sunday night and it completely changed the stock market for retail traders.
I watched it in the morning, pre-market made a big move on Monday but then opened up rather weak so I just figured I would watch. Really kicking myself on that one for not jumping in, because we saw a massive pull up, 5-6 market halts and a hold the line into the close. I made a play, but I thought it'd be a loser since I joined in "late"
Then today.... wake up to one of the most beautiful pre-market charts I've ever seen lol. GME top ticks hitting $80 three times. It's a ton weaker now as I write this post, having shrunken to about $45 a share. But... there's a lingering feeling of revenge coming. I can't even remember how many times GME was halted today. And I think we are having a standoff between retail traders who see maybe another market maker enemy in sight. I wouldn't be surprised if the meme stocks explode in after hours and pre market trading again. As for me, my play got stopped out at a nice profit level so I'm happy where I am. But I'm considering another play at market close because of the thesis above. I don't think it's done just yet.

The Plays

Ticker	Max Risked (Price)	Premium or P/L (% RoR)
*GME $30 Call May 17, '24	($900; 1 contract)	+$1,100 (222%)
**GME $20 Put May 17, '24	($414 total; 3 contracts)	Open
HD	$250	$53.76 (21.5% RoR)
BABA	$100	$25.76 (25.8% RoR)
ONON	$100	$23.76 (23.8% RoR)
*LAZR $3 Call May 17, '24	($48 total; 16 contracts)	-$32.75
***AMC	$2,000	$29.52 (1.5% RoR)
MNDY	$1,000	$219.76 (22.0% RoR)
TOTALS	$4,812	$1,419.81 (29.5% RoR)

\ stopped out of trade*
\* took this short-term short when I opened up the yolo call just as a hedge. Pretty much worthless as it stands now, however, I'm planning to vertical spread this one either at open Friday or closer to the end of day to try and recoup some of the losses and/or even make a profit. We'll see)*
\** Took a very long-term short position here and opened a vertical spread this week with a closer to the money strike. That's why the max risked is so high because there are numerous contracts at a $4 spread in between legs. If it works out, I have some long term puts completely free. If not... just a bit of position management will get through it.*
I'm a little out of my entire budget for the week already. Which to me, is ok because without this meme stock rally I wouldn't have been so tied up. But, opportunities only come knocking a few times a year, so I figured I would take a chance with this one.

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I have the option of doing home equity line of credit or going to a bank, but I'd rather not due to leaving my credit open for some upcoming business expansion needs. This is the reason for coming to /borrow and reaching out within my own network.
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